Episode "One Minute for Murder" of the "Live" 50's TV series 'Rocky King, Detective'. As the lead actor was sick, Roscoe Karn's son does lead instead.


This movie is part of the collection: Classic TV

Production Company: DuMont Television Network
Audio/Visual: Mono Sound, Black and White
Keywords: 50's; 1950's; 1950s; 50s; Fifties; TV; Television; DuMont Network; DuMont Television Network;

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: richgoup - - June 3, 2012
Subject: One Minute for Murder (Inside Detective).
Cast: Earl Hammond (Detective Sergeant Lane), Grace Carney (Mabel King: Voice), Ned Wertimer (officer Thompson), Mary Jackson (Helen Burns), Barbara Joyce (Nora Wade), Steven Gethers (Mike Bower), Wyley Hancock (Art Paulson) and Ken Roberts (Announcer).
Roscoe Karns was absent from this epispde.
From IMDB.
Good scenario idea for this episode.

Reviewer: Earlon - - February 21, 2010
Subject: A catalog site for Classic TV shows
If you like Classic TV from of the 50's, I found a catalog site that makes it easy to find and watch episodes streaming from Archive.org at:

http://www.solie.org/ClassicTV

There are currently over 400 individual episodes of about 30 different programs, and the site is growing day by day. Check it out!

Reviewer: Bobbo111 - - January 25, 2010
Subject: Excellent Show
I used to love Rocky King followed by The Plainclothesman on Sunday nights. Live TV was great. Notice in this episode the picture falling down and both actors looking back and then going on as if nothing had happened.

Reviewer: cosmicola - - April 27, 2009
Subject: Very Cool Show
Now THIS is an excellent example of terrific, entertaining, imaginatively produced Live TV!

Produced on a shoestring, Rocky King, Detective is minimalistic but lively stuff, a bit like a mini-film noir b-movie. There are also 3 more episodes available, for a total of four uploaded here (so far). Thanks to the uploader!

Easily one of the best old TV shows on the Archive, and well worth watching, IMHO.

Reviewer: Seto-Kaiba_Is_Stupid - - April 26, 2009
Subject: Better than "Law and Order"
This show is a lot more entertaining, and a lot less annoying, than NBC's "Law and Order" series.

Reviewer: Jeice_The_Cuddly_Warrior - - January 11, 2009
Subject: Agreed
Who needs a budget...this program must of cost next to nothing to produce and it's better than many expensive programs. Too bad DuMont folded, they clearly were onto somehing good.

Reviewer: Archive fan - - August 30, 2008
Subject: Who needs a budget?
There's nothing like the electricity generated from a live TV performance, where you watch a program as it unwinds in real time. It just possesses a certain tension that most of today's TV lacks. Everybody involved is on their toes, actors and techies, because it's one take from beginning to end. Sure, Dumont programs were put together on a ten-cent budget, but that forced all involved to use creativity and energy instead of hiding behind pots of money. In this episode, there are flubbed lines, pictures falling off walls, missed cues, doors left open -- but so what? Everything moves along at a brisk pace and makes for an entertaining half hour. Heck, the leading man Roscoe Karns was sick and, it being live TV, they just stuck somebody else in there to substitute that week. Considering the time crunch, lean budget, and realtime situation, all involved did a great job. More importantly, it's a neat little show.

Reviewer: Classic_TV_and_Radio_Fan - - August 27, 2008
Subject: Live Drama
This was performed live, like a stage play. It aired on the DuMont Television Network from 1950 to 1954. It's the most # TV series ever produced. 37 episodes survive in the UCLA film and television archive. This show is good, like a TV show should.